IN the third moneth] Or, in the third new Moon. (viz. in the moneth Sivan, Est. 8. 9. containing part of May and part of June) This was the twelfth station or encamping place of the Israelites in the wildernesse, and here (to wit at Sinai) they stayed almost a whole yeare, and hither they came about the fortie fifth day from their coming forth of Egypt, and five dayes after (which was the fiftieth) was the giving of the Law, whereof one or two dayes of entercourse (betwixt God and Moses) might passe, and then he might receive from God the command of three dayes preparation, 5: 11. before the receiving of the Law. the same day] Not the third day, as it was the third moneth: but the same day that the moneth beginneth, that is, in the first day of the new Moone: for the Hebrewes accompt their moneths by the course of the Moon, and the first day of the new Moon, is the first day of their moneth.